All of us celebrate our values in our behavior.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.

Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.

The cynic says, "One man can't do anything". I say, "Only one man can do anything."

If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.

Just because you don't know what you want yet, it doesn't mean that there's nothing to want.

When you've gone through something traumatic, when you've faced death and loss as much as we have, it's only natural that it changes your entire view of life.

You should never leave your "house of bread", under any pretence, whether it is oppression, troubles or hardships.

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.

I love nerds. Comic-Con junkies are the tastemakers of tomorrow. Isn't that funny? The tables have turned.

I think traveling the world has helped to keep Public Enemy alive. We've never solely depended on the United States.

Depression is a prison to which you have the key except you never think to look for it.

Christian Kings may erre in deducing a Consequence, but who shall Judge?

There may often be excuse for doing things poorly in this world, but there is never any excuse for calling a poorly done thing, well done.